Chapter 897

Considering that throwing around Aura Spheres might easily frighten Zeraora, not to mention the risk of causing this place—whose structure remained a mystery—to collapse, Su Hao chose to extend his Aura outward to probe the area.

Unfortunately, all he could sense was endless soil.

The Poké Balls at his waist had also inexplicably vanished, though Reshiram was still in his sea of consciousness, sleeping to repair its body.

Although he was very worried about the condition of Diancie and the others, Su Hao forced himself to prioritize figuring out how to leave this place.

However, the system was operating normally; Zeraora's Moomoo Milk and the velvet blanket wrapping it were items Su Hao usually stockpiled, so he just needed to retrieve them from the system space.

It wasn't that Su Hao hadn't considered whether he had been thrown into another trial, but he hadn't entered the Lake Tower, seen any system prompts for a trial, or entered the gear-filled space used for spacetime teleportation.

In the end, he could only let it be.

After walking another circle around the space, which was about a hundred square meters in size, and still finding nothing, Su Hao didn't mind the dirt and sat directly on the ground, feeling somewhat helpless.

Looking at Zeraora's sleeping cat-like face, Su Hao muttered to himself.

According to the lore, Mythical Pokémon do not have Egg Groups; for instance, Diancie was born directly from Xerneas's Fairy essence.

Why would Zeraora hatch from a Pokémon Egg?

Su Hao stared at Zeraora, lost in thought.

Suddenly, he noticed a corner of a stone slab peeking out from under the velvet blanket wrapping Zeraora, and he felt it looked somewhat familiar.

Come to think of it, this godforsaken stone chamber was almost completely barren, containing nothing at all; only this stone slab could barely be considered an object other than the ground itself.

When he had been busy earlier, Su Hao had just grabbed it to cushion Zeraora without paying any attention to what it actually looked like.

Looking closely... this color, these markings... Hiss.

Su Hao attempted to scan the exposed corner with the system.

Then... he was stunned.

【Zap Plate (Fragment): Contains the origin Electric-type energy that constitutes this world; a manifestation of the authority of a certain supreme existence, shattered for unknown reasons.】

Oh my god, the Creator God's plates have shattered again—

The moment he saw the Zap Plate fragment serving as Zeraora's crib, Su Hao felt as if he had been struck by a bolt of enlightenment, instantly connecting it to the chain quest he had been working on: "The Key to the Trial"!

This quest required Su Hao to collect the proofs of the three great trials—the proofs of Willpower, Knowledge, and Emotion—which would then transform into a key to open the stone gate ruins located beneath the Electric Canyon in the United States Alliance!

And the reward for the quest was a mysterious Pokémon Egg and a fragment of the Zap Plate; the rewards weren't even issued by the system.

Could it be... that the true identity of the so-called mysterious Pokémon Egg was Zeraora?

But as a Mythical Pokémon from the Alola region, how could Zeraora be related to the legends of the Sinnoh region?

He didn't get it, he really didn't get it.

Su Hao just squatted there, waiting for Zeraora to wake from its slumber.

However, this wait lasted a long time; at least five or six hours had passed in terms of his sensory perception.

Su Hao's eyelids began to twitch inexplicably, and a wave of profound drowsiness hit him like a landslide; even though Su Hao wanted to resist, he could not fight his body's instincts.

Finally, after casting a worried glance at Zeraora sleeping in its swaddle, Su Hao forced himself to pull a dozen bottles of Moomoo Milk he had prepared in advance from the system space, along with some resources that Electric-type Pokémon could absorb for energy.

Afterward, unable to resist the sleepiness any longer, Su Hao closed his eyes.

"Zeraora—!"

Su Hao sat up abruptly on the soft bed, as if startled awake from a dream.

A moment later, under the confused gazes of several Pokémon busy with their own tasks, Su Hao regained his senses and looked around.

If he wasn't mistaken, this was still the five-star hotel suite with a training space where he was staying.

And Zeraora's existence, along with that stone chamber, felt as if it had been a beautiful dream.

"I'm fine, I just had a dream," Su Hao said, waving his hand to soothe Diancie and the others. He then frowned slightly and looked at the Mega Glove on his hand.

He had returned to the hotel; was it really just a dream?

No, if it were just a dream, how could he explain such a realistic experience?

As if remembering something, Su Hao quickly opened the storage space provided by the system and checked the quantity of Moomoo Milk and Electric-type resources... They had indeed decreased by a portion, exactly matching the amount he had used and left behind.

Then, there was only one truth.

In his dream, he had crossed a vast distance, made contact with Zeraora in the ruins beneath the Electric Canyon, and witnessed its hatching.

Although he was very worried about Zeraora, who was still an infant Pokémon, and wanted to go to the Electric Canyon immediately to free it, his reason told him he couldn't do it.

The ruins still required the third proof of the trial to be opened, and the trial of Emotion hadn't shown any movement yet... Should he go back to Jiangcheng University and enter the Lake Tower?

While Su Hao was considering the feasibility, the phone on the nightstand suddenly rang, and Su Hao answered it by reflex.

Then, Li Xiao's voice came through the receiver: "Ah, you finally picked up! Su Hao, you really can sleep; you actually slept until the afternoon~"

"You need to play in this afternoon's match. You have over an hour, which is enough time to get here from the hotel. Hurry up, or the head coach is going to be angry!"

After a burst of output, Li Xiao hung up the phone nonchalantly, while Su Hao stared blankly at the time displayed on the phone.

PS: 3:00

He had actually slept straight through from 10:00 last night to 3:00 in the afternoon the next day!?

No wonder Diancie and the others, who were still in their Poké Balls before he went to sleep, had such strange and worried expressions when they saw him get up.

It turned out they had jumped out of their Poké Balls because they saw he hadn't woken up.

After thinking for a moment, Su Hao looked toward his ten Pokémon, who were gearing up and looking full of fighting spirit upon hearing there was a match, and asked with a deep breath: "Who is confident in ending the battle instantly?"

Since he had already submitted his name, he definitely couldn't miss the match.

The idea of returning to Jiangcheng University to try entering the Lake Tower to trigger the trial would have to wait until he finished the match.

As the Pokémon looked at each other, wondering if they should step up, the Leafeon that had been squatting quietly took the first step and chirped: "Wuu~"

It had one sword, capable of slaying the petty.

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Attached images: Grovyle, Celebi.